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I think it's a good rule of thumb to avoid the heavily-editorialized media options in general. You can usually check the relevancy of a news article by trying to cross-reference it with something like Associated Press, Reuters, BBC, whichever. If you only find it on editorial sites, consider it a fluff piece. Don't matter if it is Fox or HuffPo, left or right.

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My rule of thumb is to avoid [b]all[/b] media options. Read the news that interests you, sure, but only read as far as the first citation -- then stop reading the shitty news and go read the source instead. Takes longer, but if you do anything else you're getting a watered-down lowest-common-denominator simplification, and you're not actually getting informed.

So like, when Reuters reports that Texas passed a law about abortion restrictions, you go through the Reuters article -- skipping as many words as humanly possible -- until you find the link to the law itself. Read the law. Then if you feel like it, come back to Reuters and see what some journalist with no law degree thinks it means, but remember that they probably did less research than you did already, so it's okay to ignore most of what they say.